Sanctified Spirits Company
Founded by Joe Giildenzopf, Jamie Giildenzopf and Brad Neathery, Oak & Eden is a product of Texas-based Sanctified Spirits Company. The innovative finishing process they use for their whiskeys involves putting a spiral of wood in their bottles of bourbon and rye. The tight five-inch spirals are crafted from American white oak, allowing a maximum surface area for the whiskey to interact with the wood.
Oak & Eden was born out of an ideal for innovation. Oak & Eden believes authority is released when a creator creates, and that everyone carries the spirit of creation in them. Because of that, they pioneered a precious technique that would become the lifeblood of Oak & Eden; in-bottle finishing.
It's what makes whiskey taste like whiskey. When someone prefers a certain flavor in a whiskey, they are really saying they like the naturally occurring flavors that come from the barrel wood the whiskey was aged in.
At Oak & Eden, they follow traditional distillation and aging to the letter, aging the whiskeys for at least three years in American Oak barrels.
Oak & Eden breaks tradition in the finishing (or double barrel) process, where instead of putting fully aged whiskey in a second barrel to add more flavor coming naturally from the wood, they place in the bottle a Spire; a spiral-cut piece of oak fashioned from the same species and treatment as barrel oak.
This allows the whiskey to "finish" or flavor naturally, producing rich, sweet flavors that could only come from the power of wood.
